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Do I lack the courage of my convictions?
Jul 20, 2014 |
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
An accusation that has been increasingly levelled at me is that, because I've publicly changed my mind about my views on...
Playing the game: Ofsted vs. Civitas
Jul 17, 2014 |
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
John Ruskin
On the face of it, this seems both self-evident and obvious: if Ofsted aren't judging quality of teaching in a...
Now we are three
Jul 03, 2014 |
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In a pleasingly synchronous turn of events this post marking the end of the third year of writing The Learning Spy is also the 300th post I've published on the site. That's about a blog every 4 days....
Why we disagree: the purposes of education
Jun 25, 2014 |
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.Aristotle (possibly a fake quote)
We are fantastically bad at recognising that our beliefs are based not on ev...
What I got up to at the Wellington Festival of Education Part 2
Jun 24, 2014 |
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Day Two of the Education Festival dawned rather too early; I was camped out in my van and could have done with another hour or so before the hordes descended. By the time I was decent, and had scoffed...
Should Ofsted judge 'quality of teaching'?
May 26, 2014 |
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We all know, that as well as giving an overall grade, Ofsted give schools an individual judgement against 4 criteria: attainment, behaviour & safety, leadership & management, and quality of teaching....
Pseudo intervention and the power of placebo
Jun 17, 2014 |
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…it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives… Francis Bacon
Today's post has been contributed by a reader who has...
Ofsted: The end of the (lesson grading) affair
Jun 04, 2014 |
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Back in 2011 I started to decide that grading lessons was wrong. I wasn't exactly sure how to justify this decisi...
A round up of some of my favourite posts so far this year
May 28, 2014 |
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I was going to that thing where you round-up some of your favourite blog posts in the hope of getting a few more hits, but couldn't muster the enthusiasm. Instead, I thought I'd rip off some of the be...
A horror story: Does Ofsted get it wrong again?
May 23, 2014 |
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Following my the post earlier in the week on the fact that Ofsted inspectors seemingly continue to break the rule with impunity, a number of people got in touch with similar tales of woe. It certainly...
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